Bill Brand

I work between moving and still images.

I make photographs, 16mm films, digital videos, drawings, paintings and installations.. 

My ideas flow from medium to medium and with each I take apart and reassemble a picture.

I ask fundamental questions about how a picture works and how we see with our eyes and mind. 

• When does the urge to recognize and name things overshadow the unnamable emotion of a mark? 

• How does photography imitate the lines and shapes of drawing? 

• Do we consider an image of a photograph or video more real than one made by pencil or brush? 

• What do time and motion add to a picture? 

• Can photography be abstract or does it always insist on the identity of object, place and time?